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Discussion in 'Technical Issues & Suggestions' started by Peregrinus, May 28, 2014.

  1. Peregrinus

    Peregrinus Active Member

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    Since there is an option for "upload a file" when creating threads, does this mean that polydog can host short member contributions, say in pdf form?

    As an example, there are so many different ways for teaching German adjective declension, but I have a spreadsheet showing how I learn it which I would like to contribute. I could easily convert it to pdf.

    Obviously this depends on the hosting arrangements for this site, and there would have to be some limitations to avoid bloat.
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    I just loaded some word docs to the "resources" subforum. Will that work for you?
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    I am not seeing what you loaded. Do you mean the "language resources" forum? Because I don't see another "resources" forum.
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    Yes, the Language Resources forum. You can start a thread, and attach your docs to the first post, like I did here.
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    I understand now, thanks.
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    Further question. I was going to share part of a Chinese character deck, part of a long-term back-burner project for when I restart Mandarin, but the forum says that the extension (.apkg) is not one of those allowed. Any chance of enabling that? I only use Anki on my desktop and don't have an AnkiWeb account, and don't really wish to either. So I would prefer to upload the .apkg file here if possible.
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    please try it now

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